[Milsurplus] [MMRCG] RTTY Net Tomorrow

[MICHAEL BITTNER]

One of the uses of the AN/GRR-5 was in the AN/GSS-1 Electronic Search Central shelter.  Here is a brief summary of the AN/GSS-1 that I copied from something years ago, can't remember exactly what.  I would really like to have one of those shelters - forget the radar, it's the perfect ham shack!  Attached are some photos showing the AN/GRR-5 installation along with an AN/GRC-9.  Mike, W6MAB

AN/GSS-1

The AN/GSS-1 Electronic Search Central was a United States radar/communication system 1st fielded in the mid-1950s for Project Nike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike  with a "medium-range, transportable radar set [used] as a search radar".[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/GSS-1#cite_note-1  The Cold War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War  central included a Western Electric "AN/TPS-1D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Electric_AN/TPS-1B_Radar  radar and AN/TPX-19

interrogator system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_friend_or_foe …in a fully enclosed shelter with communications provided by radio receiving set AN/GRR-5, radio set AN/GRC-9 and by three telephone lines".   An intercom system for the "four-man team" was within the shelter of "about 6 feet high, 6 feet wide and 12 feet long" with a "personnel area [and] equipment compartment".

As part of the Hughes AN/MSG-4 Antiaircraft Defense System https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hughes_AN/MSG-4_Antiaircraft_Defense_System&action=edit&redlink=1 , the team in the radar section of a battalion would use the AN/GSS-1 to provide radar tracks to the battalion operations center, e.g., the Raytheon AN/MSQ-18 Battalion Missile Operations System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_AN/MSQ-18_Battalion_Missile_Operations_System  for command and control of (fire distribution to) up to 4 Nike fire control/launch sites.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/GSS-1#cite_note-FM44-1-4  An AN/GSS-1 was used in Germany as late as 1978[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/GSS-1#cite_note-5  after being fielded as part of the AN/TSQ-73 Guided Missile Air Defense System https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AN/TSQ-73_Guided_Missile_Air_Defense_System&action=edit&redlink=1 .[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/GSS-1#cite_note-6

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